Pediatricians' weight assessment and obesity management practices

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Huang, Jeannie S ^a,b   Donohue, Michael ^c   Golnari, Golnaz ^a   Fernandez, Susan ^a   Walker Gallego, Edward ^a   Galvan, Kate ^a   Briones, Christina ^a   Tamai, Jennifer ^a   Becerra, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBESITY; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RACE DIFFERENCE; ADULT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; PEDIATRICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; THINNESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65449164611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-9-19     Document Type: Article

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